Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.

With war and famine and flood and special effects films, when you do somebody under duress, you have to be really be inventive and…

— Peter Weir

“Defence lawyers use the term "duress" to describe the use of force, coercion or psychological pressure exerted on a client in the commission of…

— Emily Thorne

People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable…

— Robert Downey, Jr

“[John Jarndyce] rubbed his head so constantly that not a single hair upon it ever rested in its right place”

— Charles Dickens

“That you could loathe yourself for acting under duress and still crave the very things you'd done.”

— Kit Rocha

Once over there [Balkans], I felt extremely patriotic. Here are these people, from 18-year-olds to military veterans, enduring real duress for the cause of…

— Sheryl Crow

At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in…

— Anonymous

Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess, but confessions…

— Stephen Stigler

To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without…

— David Foster Wallace

Although the mass of the people accepted the white man's God, either under physical duress or because he seemed more powerful than their own…

— Penny Lernoux

Sometimes customizing is necessary because of an injury or the inability to do, for a short or long period, the kind of exercise you…

— Victoria Moran

You should be forgiving when others make mistakes, but not when the mistakes are in you. You should be patient under duress yourself, but…

— Zicheng Hong

A party is a slightly artificial event where one learns the rudiments of human behavior at its most admirable: speaking when spoken to, looking…

— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn’t spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes…

— Caitlin Moran

We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.

— Woodrow Wilson